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Page 72
... Sometimes I meet it in a band - box , " when my laundrefs brings home my linen ; fometimes , whether I will or no , " it lights my pipe at a coffee - house ; some- times it furprifes me in a trunk - maker's fhop ; and fometimes it ...
... Sometimes I meet it in a band - box , " when my laundrefs brings home my linen ; fometimes , whether I will or no , " it lights my pipe at a coffee - house ; some- times it furprifes me in a trunk - maker's fhop ; and fometimes it ...
Page 196
... Sometimes he concludes a period or para- graph with the first line of a couplet , which , though the French feem to do it without ir- regularity , always difpleafes in Englith poetry . The Alexandrine , though much his fa- vourite , is ...
... Sometimes he concludes a period or para- graph with the first line of a couplet , which , though the French feem to do it without ir- regularity , always difpleafes in Englith poetry . The Alexandrine , though much his fa- vourite , is ...
Page 395
... - times great , and sometimes tender ; the ver- fification is eafy and gay . There is doubtless fome advantage in the fhortnefs of the lines , which there is little temptation to load with expletive epithets which ADDISON . 395.
... - times great , and sometimes tender ; the ver- fification is eafy and gay . There is doubtless fome advantage in the fhortnefs of the lines , which there is little temptation to load with expletive epithets which ADDISON . 395.
Page 425
... sometimes condefcended to be fomewhat familiar , his manner was in general too fcholaftick for those who had yet their rudiments to learn , and found it not easy to understand their mafter . His obfervations were framed rather for those ...
... sometimes condefcended to be fomewhat familiar , his manner was in general too fcholaftick for those who had yet their rudiments to learn , and found it not easy to understand their mafter . His obfervations were framed rather for those ...
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